Feature: Biomaterials Are Transforming Medicine
...ultivated on apolymer mesh or "scaffold", allowing regeneration of the cartilage for an ear,for example. Physicians could also apply these techniques to regenerate damagedtendons, sciatic nerve endings and skin tissue. "We've raised more questions than we've answered," Langer concluded, butbiomaterials h...Body Building: Tissue Engineered Organs A Heartbeat Away
...ich then induces a specificresponse such as tissue regeneration (used to induce the formation of new bloodvessels). Sefton estimates the project will require billions of dollars in funding over 10years. "We're hoping the scope and possibilities of this project will catch thepublic's imagination," he says....DFG To Set Up 14 New Collaborative Research Centres
...t the collaborative research centre "Inflammation, regeneration and transformation of thepancreas " at Ulm Univers... the mechanisms of inflammation, monitorrepair and regeneration processes in changed pancreatic tissue and focus on the complexmolecular mechanisms of pancreatic ca...University Of Pittsburgh Scientist Discovers How A Novel Vitamin K Stops Cancer Cell Growth
...gues recently reported that Cpd 5 can inhibitliver regeneration in rats that had part of their livers removed. The animalssuffered no toxic side effects. Researchers at UPCI are at the forefront of experimental work usingvitamins A, D and K to prevent and treat various forms of cancer in laboratoryanimal...UPMC Researchers Report On Gene Therapy Advances
...ghSchool of Medicine. Growth factors affect the regeneration of injured muscle (lacerations,contusions and strains), and researchers at Pitt are exploring delivery systemsfor genes of such growth factors. In this study, Dr. Huard has delivered a'marker' gene packaged in a virus to muscle cells. The marker ge......ntially useful model for studying epimorphic(limb) regeneration in humans. Until now, it has been possible to study regeneration only in amphibians, whichare biologically, genetically and immunologically different from mammals. "...Oak Regeneration In Some Ohio Forests Is Failing, Researchers Find
...ted in moderntimes. Scientists studied oak regeneration in several mixed-oak forests inSoutheastern Ohio, ...overstory.Forest ecologists had theorized that oak regeneration may not be as serious inareas high in light and low in moisture, conditions that are amiable to oakg...Medicinal Leech May Offer Clues To Neural Regeneration
... the leech's nervous system set itself up to allow regeneration to occur," she says. NOS, an enzyme also found in ... humans," Sahley says. "But for some reason, nerve regeneration in higher systems is not complete. By analyzing how nerves regenerate in a simple system, we may fin......sin the clearings opened up by wind and fire. The regeneration process may be even more complicated. In a recent ...lybecause logging operations shortcircuit mahogany regeneration processes...." Logging interferes "by selectively removing almost all mahogany seedsources while le...